What is the Minnesota Shubert Center?
What is the Minnesota Shubert Center Education Program?
What technology do I need to participate in an interactive
program?
What is the cost of a program?
How do I schedule a program?
What is the Minnesota Shubert Center?
When complete, the Minnesota Shubert Performing Arts and Education Center
will be the flagship for dance in Minnesota providing a performance, rehearsal
and administrative home to Minnesota arts organizations and educational resources
statewide.
A unique resource to the State of Minnesota, this three-building performing arts complex in downtown Minneapolis will be of enormous benefit to the dance community, which has long been constrained by the lack of a marquee venue and needs such a home in order to grow artistically. Focused specifically on providing services and support to Minnesota artists and arts organizations, the Minnesota Shubert Center will work to ensure that Minnesota dance thrives.
The Minnesota Shubert Center will also be a particularly unique educational resource, providing students throughout the State access to top dance and music artists. This programming, featuring interactive Internet-based technology, makes it possible to reach students that would otherwise have little or no access to professional artists and performing arts experiences.
As a nonprofit entity, the Center will compliment the ecology of performance
venues in Minneapolis and draw its own audiences, thereby contributing to
the downtown economy and helping make downtown Minneapolis a livelier, more
vibrant, and safer place for families to visit.
What is the Minnesota Shubert Center Education
Program?
Even though the bricks are not yet in place, the Minnesota Shubert Center’s
education program has are already begun connecting artists with students across
the State. Using IP (Internet-protocol) videoconferencing and web technologies,
the Minnesota Shubert Center brings artists into classrooms throughout Minnesota and the United States,
creating two-way interactive, real-time teaching environments. This technology
makes it possible for students and artists to see and talk to one another
as if they were in the same room.
The Minnesota Shubert Center also prides itself on the flexibility of its programs, allowing teachers to plan sessions that are engaging and reach specific curricular objectives. Programming is scheduled when it is convenient for the participating school and does not have the high costs associated with conventional artistic residencies.
The application of interactive technologies to deliver this programming will
help establish the Minnesota Shubert Center as a statewide resource for arts
education and a national model for effective delivery of arts and arts education
programs.
What technology do I need to participate in an
interactive program?
In order to ensure the highest quality education experiences, the Minnesota
Shubert Center education programs are delivered over IP (H.323) Videoconferencing
technology. Contact your school/district media specialist to determine whether
your school has the appropriate equipment. If your school does not have this
equipment, the Minnesota Shubert Center will provide if for you free of charge (for Minnesota schools)
and will work with your school’s technology specialist to set it up.
What is the cost of a program?
FREE to schools in Minnesota!!! Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, the Minnesota Shubert Center is able to
provide these services to schools free of cost. Schools outside of Minnesota pay $175 per session.
How do I schedule a program?
To learn more about bringing a Minnesota Shubert Center
educational program to your school contact Jessi Kolodziej at 612-465-0220 or education@mnshubert.org